Records from the Stone Wall of Great

Records from the Stone Wall of Great Clarity Taiqing shibi ji)... 

Both Tang anthologies of the Taiqing tradition, namely the Records from the Stone Wall of Great Clarity Taiqing shibiji CT 881) and... 

These textual similarities show that the Records from the Stone Wall of Great Clarity, Sun Simiao s Essential Instructions, and the Tang Inventory all drew their descriptions of minerals from a single source. The association of the former two texts with the Taiqing tradition points to one of the enlarged versions of the Scripture of Great Clarity as the source in question. 

Taiqing shibi ji (Records from the Stone Wall of Great Clarity CT 881), 2.4b. One might only speculate on whether the name of this elixir provided inspiration for the legends about Su Yuanming as one of the earliest neidan masters (or, perhaps more li ely, vice versa). 

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